A few weeks ago a cousin of mine graduated from UTPA and I found out she was going to have a surprise part –which was a surprise to me too. I wanted to paint something for her but I wasn’t sure what exactly I wanted to do. I recently transitioned into using oil paints exclusively over acrylics and being short on time which anticipating a long drying time was totally messing with my nerves. At some point I got really annoyed with myself, got on my cousin’s myspace page, found a picture I liked and below are the results.

She loved it; everyone at the party loved it –despite the fact that they couldn’t touch it. A week later the thank you card she sent me says she hung it up for all to see. Woo!